To assure that you don’t let your water pan boil dry and warp or crack try these techniques:
1. Place marbles in your water pan. When the water boils, they will rattle nicely. If the water boils dry, they will stop making noise and you will know to add water.
2. There is no need to have a furious boil. Just a constant roll that produces steam is all that is necessary.
3. Use a timer! Set at the beginning of every process. Set initially for 40 minutes. Check water level when it goes off and reset for 10 - 15 minutes. (this is how I time my processing)
4. The Mehu-Liisa is very efficient in its work and it is rare to need more than an hour to process. After that, you will start to extract bitterness from stems, cores and seeds/pits.
5. As always, check the water pan periodically to see if it needs water. If you find that the pan is empty, DON”T ADD ANY WATER! as this may cause it to warp. Let the pan cool, then fill again and restart processing.
Try all these methods. Eventually, you will come up with your favorite method.
Well, its been quite a season. Mehu-Liisa products has been buffeted about on the unpredictable seas of small business a fair amount. As if the weak US dollar and rising stainless steel costs weren’t enough, I had to shut down my YahooStore and move my inventory to a new warehouse right in the middle of my busiest season.
Yikes! That hurt.
I worked diligently for three weeks to locate and transfer my inventory to a new reliable warehouse up in Michigan. Now, ordering is back up and units will start going out again beginning of next week. Phew! What a mess that was.
Also, as a few of you may have found out, there was a quality control issue at the factory in Finland this summer when they produced my fall inventory. It turns out that some juicers were showing up at customers homes without the lids and/or hoses and clamps.
So, I had the company send me replacements asap. They arrived just as the inventory was transferring to the new warehouse. I have tried to inform everyone of the situation and contact all customers who may be affected. I have a list of all customers who need lids and hoses and they will go out next week.
Let me know if you haven’t told me about missing parts. Email at contact@juicer-steamer.com
Other than all that, the juicer is selling well and more and more customers are getting to enjoy using the Mehu-Liisa. That’s a good thing!
A friend who owns a local mixed orchard let me know their grapes were splitting because of rain. I went over and got a few baskets full to process for holiday grape juice. Beautiful fall weather, cool, little overcast, colorful leaves. When I started out to the vines I startled a great blue heron who had been hunting mice in the adjacent field. It croaked like a dinosaur. Later a flock of Canada geese flew over. Pleasures of the season.
The grapes were very ripe and fragrant. Like wine on the vine! Flavor was fantastic. While I was picking, a local black lab came by and pestered me to throw an apple for fetch. I took a break and obliged. Then when I went back to work, he was in there with me, nibbling grapes right off the vine! Some dog…
Will process tonight! Looking forward to it. Here are some pictures:
Half hour’s work.
Sweet golden table grapes. Fabulous flavor. Very ripe. Yellowjackets loved these. They needed a little picking over but they were worth it.
Charles the humble owner of Empty Gate Orchard.
